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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''The morning light has washed your face, and everything is turning blue now.'']] |
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4 | ''Heartattack and Vine'' is the seventh studio album by American musician Music/TomWaits, released in 1980 through Asylum Records. It's best remembered for the fan favorites "Jersey Girl", "Ruby's Arms" and the title track. At the time it was his best-selling album up to that point. |
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6 | It would be his final album for the label ''Asylum'' and symbolically end the first period of his career, where his music mostly evoked a "drunk pianist in a jazzy nightclub atmosphere". After this album Waits moved to another label, while his music changed into a style more akin to AvantGardeMusic / AlternativeRock with the NewSoundAlbum ''Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}}'' (1983). |
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8 | !!Tracklist |
9 | [[AC:Side One]] |
10 | # "Heartattack and Vine" (4:50) |
11 | # "In Shades" (4:25) |
12 | # "Saving All My Love for You" (3:41) |
13 | # "Downtown" (4:45) |
14 | # "Jersey Girl" (5:11) |
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16 | [[AC:Side Two]] |
17 | [numlist:6] |
18 | # "Til the Money Runs Out" (4:25) |
19 | # "On the Nickel" (6:19) |
20 | # "Mr. Siegal" (5:14) |
21 | # "Ruby's Arms" (5:34) |
22 | [/numlist] |
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24 | !! Ruby's Tropes |
25 | * BreakUpSong: "Saving All My Love For You" |
26 | --> ''I'd come home, but I'm afraid that you won't take me back, but I'd trade off everything just to have you near.'' |
27 | * FaceOnTheCover: Waits is seen on the album cover as a newspaper picture. |
28 | %%* {{Instrumental}}: "In Shades". |
29 | * IronicNurseryRhyme: "On The Nickel" , a pseudo lullaby about little boys who don't do what they should and grow up to be skid row homeless. |
30 | %%* {{Joisey}}: "Jersey Girl", of course. |
31 | * LampshadeHanging: In hindsight, the opening line of "Saving All My Love For You" serves as a shockingly self-aware analysis of where the album falls in his discography, coming between his "bluesy barfly" first period and carnival-barker sound of the second period. |
32 | --> ''It's too early for the circus; it's too late for the bars...'' |
33 | * MoralityBallad: "On the Nickel" is actually a parody of such. Waits wrote it from the point of view of a father telling his son that he'll end up like the men on Skid Row if he doesn't do as he's told. |
34 | * NotStayingForBreakfast: "Ruby's Arms". |
35 | --> ''As I say goodbye to Ruby's arms, you'll find another soldier, and I swear to God to Christmas, there'll be someone else to hold you'' |
36 | %%* OneManSong: "Mr. Siegal". |
37 | %%* OneWomanSong: "Jersey Girl", "Ruby's Arms". |
38 | * OneWordTitle: "Downtown". |
39 | * PackagedAsOtherMedium: The album cover is designed in the style of a newspaper cover. The headlines of the articles are the names of the songs. |
40 | * PerpetualPoverty: Not too surprisingly, "Til the Money Runs Out" |
41 | -->''Can't you hear the thunder someone stole my watch''\ |
42 | ''I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.'' |
43 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: Waits wrote "Jersey Girl" for his wife and frequent collaborator Kathleen Brennan. |
44 | * {{Scatting}}: "Jersey Girl" has Waits scatting "sha la la la", which surprised even him |
45 | --> ''I never thought I would catchy myself saying "sha la la la" in a song. |
46 | * StockSoundEffects: Church bells are heard during "Saving All My Love For You". |
47 | * StopAndGo: "Til the Money Runs Out" has an instrumental intro, followed by a sudden break and a few seconds of silence. Then Waits and the instruments come in. |
48 | * TitleTrack: "Heartattack And Vine" |
49 | --> ''You'll probably see someone you know on heartattack and vine'' |
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